Ashley Tisdale Clapped Back After a Fan Body Shamed Her

Ashley Tisdale has been living her best life, and because a girl apparently cannot just live, she's getting hate about how she looks.

According to Perez Hilton, haters body shamed Ashley about her look at Elton John's Oscars viewing party, saying she looked pregnant in her dress. The comment was rude and inappropriate, and Ashley was having none of it. She clapped back at the haters, letting them know she's fine with how she looks.

"The pressure to being perfect is a struggle. No i'm not pregnant, I'm just happy and haven't been strict on my diet but thanks for the reminder," Ashley wrote on Twitter.

She makes such a good point. Getting glammed up to go to an event celebrating your own and your colleagues accomplishments should be fun and exciting, but stars face such pressure that there will always be bullies, no matter what they look like. If someone thinks they don't fit a specific beauty standard, comments flood in.

No one should be body shamed because no one's body is shameful. Ashley should feel free to be happy and eat whatever she wants without stressing about trolls. The truth is it's OK to enjoy your life, and if your weight changes as a result, that's OK too. Beyond body shaming her, Ashley's hater assumed she is pregnant, which is another level of not OK. As Molly Sanchez explained in an article for The Bold Italic, asking women if they are pregnant is demanding an explanation for their bodies.

"These incessant queries go beyond people’s curiosity about fertility," Molly wrote. "They’re another way of co-opting women’s bodies, in the same vein as telling women on the street to smile. Asking if a woman is with child is saying, “'’m a stranger but you owe me an explanation about your body.' And that’s not OK." The truth is, women's bodies can look however they like them too, and however makes them happiest. With no explanation needed. That's the point Ashley made with her clap back. She's enjoying her life and and doing whatever makes her most happy without worrying what people will think. That's exactly what she should be doing. Apparently Ashley's hater saw her response and sent out a Tweet of support...but no apology.

Different or not, it doesn't matter. It's great that Ashley commented on how difficult it is to maintain a Hollywood body, because we could all use more transparency in our lives. But beyond that, it's time we end the cycle of commenting on what a woman's body looks like as if she is just a commodity, and appreciate her worth. Ashley certainly knows her. She's had crazy success on screen with High School Musical, but her career goes well beyond that. She owns her own production company, she runs a lifestyle blog, and even has her own makeup line. Like she said, she's happy and that's what matters.